Games in the Library

Discover a new art style, explore 10 major cities around the world and try to meet the challenges using unique junk pieces to create art. Will you be able to create an eye-catching sculpture in Amsterdam? Be the first to complete your sculpture in Monaco? Or, in Montreal. Be the last artist-standing in a collaborative piece? No one said that becoming a reknowned artist was an easy task, but it is so much fun.

A world of beautiful colors comes alive as players complete commissions that picture some of the finest European and American art works from the past six centuries. The word "pastiche" is used in the fields of literature and art to refer to something that is an imitation or recreation of an earlier work, often as a respectful homage or tribute to the original. In this game, players are making pastiches by mixing colors and recreating some of the palette colors used to create the original paintings of the masters. Explore the paintings, palettes and pasts of the artists in this unique and challenging game for the whole family.

In Modern Art, you are a museum trying to buy and sell paintings for the highest rates! Over four rounds, you and your rival museums auction various paintings. At the end of each round, the paintings are sold to the bank and the more popular artists become more valuable! The museum with the most money at game's end wins, so make sure to buy low and sell high in Modern Art!

In this fast-paced card game, you collect impossibly valuable works of art and put them on display in your own personal art museum, the Musée. The only problem is that your opponents are doing the very same thing! Each gallery must be organized properly by exhibit number, but to succeed you must balance your passion for order with the need for public acclaim. Impress visitors by tastefully positioning works of art side-by-side showing similar themes. Make sure you don't get too greedy for applause, though — doing so might disorganize your collection and keep you from displaying any more paintings. The first player to complete each separate gallery will open the exhibition early and receive extra recognition. The player who displays the most compelling combination of artworks in the most artistic manner wins.

In this game of celestial discovery, you'll explore the wonders of the night sky with your trusty telescope. Each turn, cast your gaze across the heavens to locate new stars and map them onto constellations. Earn points for the stars you place. Score bonus points for completing Exploration Goals, and finishing the constellations in your end-game Myths.

Players find themselves in the roles of fresco painters and by order of the bishop have to restore the large painting on the cathedral's ceiling. Painters must plan their workday carefully, get up early, buy and mix paints, increase their income through meeting orders in their own studios, and be careful not to put their apprentices in a bad mood. Each round consists of 2 phases: choosing a get up time and adjusting mood and planning and performing actions. Each player secretly plans actions that can be performed at 5 different locations (market, cathedral, studio, workshop, and theater), and then reveals to the other players which actions will be taken. Actions at the locations include buying paints or closing down a market booth (market), restoring the fresco or altar (cathedral), painting portraits (studio), blending paints (workshop), and improving one's mood (theater). The winner is the player who earns the most victory points at the end of the game. The three expansion modules can be combined with the basic game in any way players like to gradually increase the challenge.

In Canvas you are a painter competing in a prestigious art festival. Collect transparent cards and layer them to create paintings. Depending on which cards you choose and the order in which you place them, you will reveal or cover icons to earn ribbons. Each card combination creates a unique illustration and title for your painting.